unaffiliated

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adjective

Not affiliated, not associated.

Less commonScrabble 19

Meanings

adjectiveunaffiliated (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot affiliated, not associated.

    But politically correct universities and colleges, overrun by SJW liberals and angry geeds (read uninitiated and unaffiliated members of the university who have no wish to join Greek life or support it whatsoever) want to destroy the Greek system.

    2012, Edward Masters, In Defense of Fraternity and Political Freedom, Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 2
    1 more example

    This is not a land of blowouts. It’s a middle ground, and that’s reflected in voter registration rolls. Nearly 2.6 million North Carolinians declare themselves unaffiliated, while just over 2.4 million identify as Democrats and just under 2.2 million as Republicans. We don’t tilt. We teeter.

    2023 May 4, Frank Bruni, “Republicans Are Running Wild in My State”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2023
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of unaffiliate
noununaffiliated (plural unaffiliateds)

plural unaffiliateds

  1. A person or organization having no affiliation.

    Among wholesalers, voluntary and cooperatives carry a far wider range and number of items in private brands than do unaffiliateds.

    1968, Progressive Grocer's Marketing Guidebook, page 13
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    These unaffiliated (or independent) directors are, supposedly, the purifying factor against the contamination of the Managing Group's duality. The unaffiliateds are, in short, the Fund's watchdogs.

    1967, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, Mutual Fund Legislation of 1967: Hearings, page 706

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivenot affiliated

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishaffiliate
  9. Englishunaffiliated

From un- + affiliate + -ed.

Full word history & related roots →
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APA

unaffiliated. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unaffiliated

MLA

“unaffiliated.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unaffiliated. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unaffiliated,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unaffiliated.

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